-COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — One year after thousands upon thousands of Braves fans came to Cooperstown for the unprecedented induction of three same-era Atlanta icons — Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Bobby Cox — into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, plenty have returned this week.

ATLANTA — There have been 18,245 major league baseball players in the last 140 years, according to Baseball-Reference.com, of which only 215 have been elected to the Hall of Fame. So to make it to Cooperstown, a player must have the talent and drive to be recognized as one of the top 1.2 percent in his profession, as well as the lab results to confirm he’s not a chemical creation.

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France — Frenchman Romain Bardet won Stage 18 of the Tour de France on Thursday, while Britain’s Chris Froome remained the overall leader with just three days remaining in cycling’s most prestigious event.